Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 878e713f6a104adc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

97.2 KB Created: 2021-06-27 01:50:21 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-09-14
MD5: 0aff9e9360c20774be019b27f63d3019 SHA-1: 99cab8cb56c0a53971b11d50f97869bfa7e7c472 SHA-256: 878e713f6a104adcb37c99f069ee03a51f02ceacfbb8c0b6a2865645ef0a1398
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

This PDF file was flagged by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier as malicious, with ClamAV identifying it as a phishing trojan. The file contains numerous links pointing to external websites, many of which are hosted on compromised WordPress sites or disposable domains, suggesting a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious content. The presence of embedded URLs and the nature of the heuristics strongly indicate an attempt to direct users to phishing or malware distribution sites.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9910

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://crewmak.ru/uplcv?utm_term=fast+and+furious+streaming PDF link annotation
    • http://pcwest1980.com/clients/9/9b/9b13e9c1eb96aaf026ead536bb80a376/File/24805086506.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lilit-realty.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/u480cpd9hqctri6v6ra8d008n1/47641782012.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.1000ena.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607929af158b6---fivagagaretizow.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://lltsg.com/uploadfile/file///2021062112243697.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://vilaportugal.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607d1cf14357d---wigujezi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://dsodrecital.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160b55d9ece246---74842880143.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://aduanaldelvalle.mx/userfiles/file/xovifer.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://malashealthcare.com/userfiles/files/ropadazejiwezakoxupit.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://nhaban24h.com.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/fbi17ejgfhki084l269sjs4qat/januvujekul.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://careerhack.net/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607bb397ec497---97773150829.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://higher-reason.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/tqgqmst88drkum2qe76srrj31c/19608906969.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://afd.me.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/eh1gkipbq4mt8gvt5n55mg2d0l/zozuliwujapis.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://stcatherine.ac.ug/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160a7db4f01f92---xijap.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://isosklo.cz./uploads/83635806746.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://alnoorcity.com/userfiles/file/83121844036.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://antik-cafe-bergen.de/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16092c88be4204---bazadirimexanu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://charqueadaboavista.com.br/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/268acd2616bed7b828f97e0669aa443d/jigufiwo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://ksboutlet.com/file/files/wafete.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://camile.vn/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/phr7ipku0rndpn3cpp3gmakfel/nowogadupopotixemeg.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://carriewoodfamily.com/clients/5/5b/5b9f2fb360c4065436fb7fe1267c3612/File/mokosi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://schouteninterieurwerk.nl/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1606c99f6416c7---36907728891.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://profbuhotchet.ru/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/ffd0fe330c29e05ab6e6f48c6ba97d97/subur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://melissajacksonmd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d38e7090292---sazax.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://sf-tfi-pgu.uz/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/1bf4dd6304cbab22316169aa98480722/xokine.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 4

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000fe55.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFE55 16152 bytes
SHA-256: 72dd55403894d4b4622306d8e53457d72b134b3bf00c4f2ea670cc2f6870813f
font_01_sfnt_off000113ca.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x113CA 18980 bytes
SHA-256: 5c07910c6ba9680fbce89a1f887b6d7485d3a075cf08c8688add7ced86146a39
font_02_sfnt_off00014529.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x14529 10728 bytes
SHA-256: 24e455b82b23b2fb8869f39500f67135da80a5ded4a98645f516ad1905804f56
font_03_sfnt_off00015d93.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x15D93 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1